Re: developer.gnome.org and meson

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 9 August 2017 at 20:57, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 03:20:38PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > After all, Linux
> > distributions rebuild the documentation when building the binary
> > packages anyway
>
> I see that in the gspell-doc package on Fedora 26, some html pages have
> links to /home/seb/jhbuild/... (a problem with the gtkdoc-fixxref
> config). That's my home directory :-) so definitely Fedora didn't
> re-generate the docs

That's all kinds of broken — that's why distro re-generate the docs, typically.

> (and it would be painfully slow, it takes several
> hours on my machine to generate the GTK+ docs).

Distributions typically use something slightly more beefy than a
typical PC hardware for their builds.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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